Corrections and clarifications

In a note towards the end of our survey of 2005, A year of catastrophe, page 35, Weekend, December 31, we included Greece among a number of countries in which bird flu, specifically the virulent H5N1 strain which has caused human illness and death, had been reported. We should make it clear that although a case was suspected, in a turkey on the Greek island of Chios in October last year, tests proved negative and all restrictions were quickly lifted. The H5N1 strain has never been detected in Greece.

In an item about a newspaper, the News on Sunday, page 2, Media, February 6, we said "it closed after just two months in 1987". In fact, it lasted a little longer. A former NoS journalist writes: "Although the paper was a financial disaster we stumbled on ... for 29 issues and nearly seven months."

The picture illustrating a piece about the possible conversion of the 19th-century Stanbrook Abbey, page 3, January 31, showed not the building in question but the medieval Pershore Abbey.

In the People column, page 8, February 3, we described Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor as "the head of the Catholic church in Britain". In fact, he is the head of the Catholic church in England and Wales.

In a report, 'We had to do something different', page 8, Media, February 6, we said "marketing efforts have reached a crescendo". The Guardian resists the use of "crescendo" to mean "climax" (3rd definition in Collins; definition 2b in Concise Oxford, with a note that it is disputed; 4th, and contra-indicated, definition in Bloomsbury. A crescendo is a gradual increase towards a climax.

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